BILL NUMBER: AB 713 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2015
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 19, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Weber
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
McCarty, O'Donnell, and Thurmond
)
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
An act to amend Section Sections 33190 and
48010 of, and to add Section 48001 to, the Education Code,
relating to kindergarten.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 713, as amended, Weber. Elementary education: kindergarten.
Under
(1) Under existing law, a person
between the ages of 6 and 18 years who is not exempted by law is
subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law excludes a
child under 6 years of age from the public schools, subject to
specified exceptions.
Existing law requires a school district maintaining a kindergarten
to admit a child who will have his or her 5th birthday on or before
certain specified dates during that school year. Existing law also
requires that a child who will have his or her 6th
birthday on or before specified dates to be admitted to
the first grade of an elementary school.
This bill, beginning with the 2017-18 school year, would require a
child to have completed one year of kindergarten before he or she
may be admitted to the first grade, thereby imposing a state-mandated
local program.
(2) Existing law requires each person, firm, association,
partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school
instruction at the elementary or high school level to, between the
first and 15th day of October of each year, file with the
Superintendent of Public Instruction an affidavit or statement, under
penalty of perjury, by the owner or other administrator setting
forth specified information.
This bill would specify that private school instruction at the
elementary level includes kindergarten. The bill also would make
nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
The
(3) The California Constitution
requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts
for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions
establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 33190 of the
Education Code is amended to read:
33190. Every
(a) Each person, firm,
association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting
private school instruction on at the
elementary , including kindergarten, or high school level
shall shall, between the first and 15th
day of October of each year, commencing on October 1, 1967,
year, file with the Superintendent of
Public Instruction an affidavit or statement, under penalty
of perjury, by the owner or other head
administrator setting forth the following information for the
current year:
(a)
(1) All names, whether real or fictitious, of
under which the person, firm, association,
partnership, or corporation under which it has
done and or is doing business.
(b)
(2) The address, including city and street, of
every each place of doing
business of the person, firm, association, partnership, or
corporation within the State of California.
(c)
(3) The address, including city and street, of the
location of the records of the person, firm, association,
partnership, or corporation, and the name and address, including city
and street, of the custodian of such those
records.
(d)
(4) The names name and
addresses, address, including city and
street, of the directors, if any, each
director and principal officers officer
of the person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation.
(e)
(5) The school enrollment, by grades, number of
teachers, whether coeducational or enrollment limited to
boys or girls girls, and boarding
facilities.
(f)
(6) That the following records are maintained at the
address stated, and are true and accurate:
(1)
(A) The records required to be kept by Section 48222.
(2)
(B) The courses of study offered by the institution.
(3)
(C) The names name and
addresses, address, including city and
street, of its faculty, each faculty member,
together with a record of the educational qualifications of
each.
(g)
(7) Criminal record summary information has
been was obtained pursuant to Section 44237.
Whenever
(b) If two or more private
schools are under the effective control or supervision of a single
administrative unit, such that
administrative unit may comply with the provisions of
this section on behalf of each of the schools
school under its control or supervision by
submitting one report.
Filing
(c) Filing pursuant to this
section shall not be interpreted to does not
mean, and it shall be unlawful for any
a school to expressly or impliedly represent by any means
whatsoever, that the State of California, the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Superintendent, the
State Board of Education, state board,
the State Department of Education,
department, or any a division or
bureau of the department, or any an
accrediting agency has made any an
evaluation, recognition, approval, or endorsement of the school or
course course, unless this is an actual
fact.
The
(d) The Superintendent
of Public Instruction shall prepare and publish a list of
each private elementary , including kindergarten,
and high schools to include school that
includes the name and address of the school and the name of
the school owner or administrator.
SECTION 1. SEC. 2. Section 48001 is
added to the Education Code, to read:
48001. Beginning with the 2017-18 school year, a child shall have
completed one year of kindergarten before he or she may be admitted
to the first grade.
SEC. 2. SEC. 3. Section 48010 of the
Education Code is amended to read:
48010. (a) A child shall be admitted to the first grade of an
elementary school during the first month of a school year if the
child has completed one year of kindergarten and will have his or her
sixth birthday on or before one of the following dates:
(1) December 2 of the 2011-12 school year.
(2) November 1 of the 2012-13 school year.
(3) October 1 of the 2013-14 school year.
(4) September 1 of the 2014-15 school year and each school year
thereafter.
(b) For good cause, the governing board of a school district may
permit a child of proper age to be admitted to a class after the
first school month of the school term.
SEC. 3. SEC. 4. If the Commission on
State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by
the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for
those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section
17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.